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Audio: Home Care Unions Adapt to New Legal Obstacles »

September 2, 2014 | Labor Notes Staff

Labor Notes' Samantha Winslow discussed the implications of Harris v. Quinn in two recent in a radio interviews. Meanwhile, home care unions are signing up members and winning elections.

Viewpoint: Don’t Just ‘Save Artie T.’ »

August 29, 2014 | Jeff Goldhaber

For the last week or so, I’ve been speaking with workers from Market Basket stores. What I heard from these hourly workers was very different than what you hear in the press from striking managers.

They Don’t Need a Majority To Get Things Done »

August 27, 2014 | Samantha Winslow

Workers at the North Carolina Cummins diesel engine plant won wage increases this summer—even without having a recognized union or majority union support inside their shop.

‘Hands Up, Don’t Ship!’ Minneapolis UPS Workers Protest Shipments to Missouri Police »

August 26, 2014 | Flintheart Glomgold and Launchpad McQuack

A dozen part-time UPS workers took protest action after discovering ties between Missouri law enforcement and a company whose shipments they handle each day.

Six Hundred Cleaning Ladies Re-Invigorating Greek Movement »

August 25, 2014 | Sonia Mitralia, English translation by Isidoros Diakides

Fired janitors have been occupying the entrance of Greece's Ministry of Economic Development, among other creative tactics. Their fighting spirit is infectious.

Market Basket Strike Looks Like a Strike Should »

August 22, 2014 | Peter Olney

Striking Market Basket employees are waging a colorful and creative, community-based struggle to keep their CEO, Arthur T. Demoulas.

‘Mike Brown Is Our Son’ »

August 20, 2014 | Jane Slaughter

“My first reaction was ‘oh no, not again,’” said Mark Esters, an organizer for the Communications Workers in the St. Louis area. “And trying to take it all in. And then, what should our response be? The answer was collective action."

Ferguson: A String of Betrayals »

August 20, 2014 | Peter Downs

The conflict in Ferguson, Missouri, is about policing—but it is also about much more. To understand what's happened there, you also have to understand the outsourcing of industry, the housing bubble, and education reform.

Kellogg’s Employees Back to Work »

August 19, 2014 | Steve Payne

The strategy of relying on a judge to get members back to work worked—but only after they faced 10 months without pay on a picket line.

McDonald’s Can’t Hide Behind Franchise System »

August 18, 2014 | Julia Kann

McDonald’s workers demanding “$15 and a union” have reason to cheer. A move by the National Labor Relations Board throws a big wrench in the corporation’s franchise system and could open the door to more worker organizing.

‘Flexibility’ Hits University of Wisconsin Custodians »

August 14, 2014 | Jason Lee

The fate of 26 custodians on a small University of Wisconsin campus isn’t isolated. It’s part of a trend: applying a market-based, private model to public higher education.

In North Carolina, Fast Food and Moral Mondays Movements Build Ties »

August 13, 2014 | Kerry Taylor

It was the rare meeting of Southern workers that struck a note of optimism. Fast food strikers, union members, and Moral Mondays arrestees have been turning out regularly for each other's fights.

NYU Grad Union Needs a Contract Campaign, Not Just a Contract »

August 11, 2014 | Natasha Raheja

Grad student workers at New York University are poised to regain a union contract, making them unique in the private sector. But will their new union be as democratic and social-justice-minded as its counterparts at public universities in California and Massachusetts?

Viewpoint: California Job Safety Weakened By ‘Friends of Labor’ Politicians »

August 8, 2014 | Garrett Brown

For their own protection, California workers and their unions had better start raising hell about the erosion of job safety protections since Democrat Jerry Brown became governor four years ago with strong labor backing.

Review: Private Equity Pillages the Economy »

August 6, 2014 | Eric Blair

According to the informative new book Private Equity at Work: When Wall Street Manages Main Street, private equity ownership of companies has led to fewer jobs, lower wages, weaker pensions, and rising inequality.

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